IS suspect Mohammad Mussa who planned to attack the headquarters of Missionaries of Charity - Mother House in Kolkata also carried out “reconnaissance in Delhi and Srinagar for attacking and executing foreign tourists especially, Russians, Americans... read more

Islamic State suspect Mohammad Mussa, who was arrested in West Bengal on July 4, planned to carry out attacks on the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in central Kolkata, the National Investigation Agency believes. His aim was to target British,... read more

A team of Federal Bureau of Investigation officers will arrive in Kolkata on Thursday to interrogate a suspected member of the Islamic State, who is believed to have indoctrinated several men to join the terror outfit. read more

There has been an alarming rise in the number of deaths of mountaineers from Bengal while scaling challenging peaks. Experts say a lack of fitness, not knowing when to quit and improper planning is egging people to their doom. read more

After interrogating Durgapur polytechnic student Ashique Ahmed, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has learnt that he had managed to indoctrinate several youths from Bengal in the Islamic State’s (IS’s) ideology in the last six months. read more

Subhasish Raychaudhuri and Aminul Rahaman met Sinha and offered ‘a huge amount’ to cross the border to smuggle cattle. Sinha made them wait and informed officers at the Jorasanko police station. read more

The step also marks the revival of the Saradha investigation which, opposition leaders have alleged, was relegated to the backburner for the past few months. Incidentally till early 2015 when the investigation slipped into slow gear, chief minister Mamata... read more

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is giving final touches to its charge sheet in the multi-crore Saradha scam, with an attachment of Saradha’s Rs 1,600 crore property. The ED is still clueless about the details of the various bank transactions of Sud... read more

The NIA officers got in touch with officials of the district election commission and sought details of Barkat Ali’s voter’s ID. Barkat had claimed in court the he was 15 and hence should be treated as a minor. His school records show he was born on January... read more

The state government is in the process of putting together a team of mountaineers, who are to embark on a mission to retrieve the mortal remains of ace climber and Everest summiteer Chhanda Gayen and two Sherpas in the treacherous snows of Kanchenju... read more

In a landmark judgment, the National Green Tribunal (NGT)’s East Zone bench on Friday issued ‘immediate and indefinite injunction’ for all types of construction works across the banks of the Hooghly which did not have proper permission from the appropriate... read more

The West Bengal Police is leaving no stone unturned to fend off Maoists from its borders, and on Thursday, cops gave their Jharkhand counterparts specific information about the location of Naxalite leaders, who laid siege to a border village in the state.... read more

In further trouble for state transport minister Madan Mitra in the Saradha scam case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to quiz his elder son Swarup about his income, bank details and other assets, sources said. read more

Despite All India Congress Committee asking senior advocate and former Union minister Kapil Sibal to return the brief to the West Bengal government, it appears he will fight the case, said a legal adviser to Trinamool all-India general secretary Mukul... read more

CBI sources said Roy sent an e-mail to the central investigative agency’s Kolkata office on Wednesday night and informed it that its officers could call him for interrogation on any day after that date. read more

According to the dossier prepeared by intelligence agencies, Ahmed Hassan Imran - Rajya Sabha MP - had links with Soukat Ali, a close associate of Siddikur Rahaman alias Bangla Bhai – a Taliban veteran of the Afghan war who reportedly masterminded the... read more

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is apprehending that a scam allegedly involving another chit fund firm, Rose Valley, may turn out to be a bigger scandal than Saradha. The ED has estimated that the Rose Valley Group collected Rs. 15,000 crore read more

CBI sleuths probing the Saradha chit fund scam has landed fresh input from a central investigating agency suggesting that a top Trinamool leader siphoned off Rs. 1 crore from Bengal through the hawala route. read more

CBI is considering the transfer of the Saradha case from Kolkata. The IB\'s Kolkata office has also sent a report to the Delhi headquarters regarding the lawlessness created by the TMC during the production of the accused minister before the Alipore court... read more

The West Bengal police didn’t slap charges of terrorism and other serious offences against the accused in the Burdwan blast case to keep the NIA at bay, a senior official of the country’s elite anti-terror force told HT. read more

Saradha chairman Sudipta Sen planned to go to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on April 22, when he was fleeing the police in Kolkata, his principal aide Debjani Mukherjee has told the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation. read more

The CBI has uncovered prima facie evidence of the nexus between Saradha top brass and the ruling Trinamool Congress after examining call details of mobile and land line numbers of Saradha functionaries. read more

None other than the state intelligence branch of West Bengal Police – working directly under chief minister Mamata Banerjee –predicted that the Trinamool Congress would win only 18-22 seats against its target of 30 seats. read more

Despite being told by the state education department on June 30, 2011, to follow the central government’s reservation policy strictly while recruiting teaching staff in the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST) and other backward classes ( OBC)... read more

NIA sleuths quizzing terror accused Yasin Bhatkal and key aide Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi have picked up leads on Tahesin Akhtar, a fellow Indian Mujahideen activist who was key hand in serial blasts across the country since 2006. read more

NIA sleuths quizzing terror accused Yasin Bhatkal and key henchman Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, aka Tabrez, have learned that Waqas, a Pakistani national, had also been a key player in all major serial blasts across the country over the past three ... read more

Indian Mujahideen was not involved in the July 7 Bodh Gaya blasts, Yasin Bhatkal and Asauddin Akhtar alias Haddi, the two Indian Mujahideen leaders arrested on Thursday morning claimed during interrogation on Thursday-Friday. read more

Unbelievable as this may sound, the Mamata Banerjee administration has drawn up a list of 423 government employees, most of them lower and upper division clerks and members of the Trinamool-backed employees union. Although not official, their job: to... read more

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the twin blasts in Hyderabad in February, has made a breakthrough by identifying the owner of the two bicycles that were used to hide the explosives. read more

Beware of vaccine rackets operating in Kolkata city that administer cheap antidotes that you don’t need in place of expensive ones prescribed by your doctor. In the process, they not only rob you of your money, but leave with you with a false sense of... read more

First appearances can indeed be deceptive. Bright yellow, noisy and uncomfortable — from a distance it looks every inch like the trademark Kolkata cab. But look closer and you will discover how 130 orphans in a remote South 24-Parganas village have benefited... read more

The Trinamool Congress strongman of Bhangar, Arabul Islam, who was shifted to Critical Care Unit (CCU) of SSKM Hospital on Thursday evening, used a mobile phone inside the unit violating norms and despite requests of the doctors and the hospital staff... read more

The Park Street gang rape case of February 2012 is getting weaker. Forensic reports accessed by HT have failed to detect sperm in the vaginal swab and smear of the 37-year-old Anglo-Indian victim. Soumen Datta reports. read more

After hanging Ajmal Kasab, the Centre is trying to hunt down Amir Reza Khan, the founder of Indian Mujahideen (IM) that was involved in several terror attacks in the country, including the Mumbai serial blasts in 2006, the American Centre attack in 2002... read more

As many as 37 ministers of Mamata Banerjee’s government have become victims of red tape as they are yet to get the salary for September, thanks to lack of instructions from the chief minister’s office (CMO) to the constitution branch of the home department,... read more

Digging up the past, the criminal investigation department (CID) has begun an inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of theatre artist Biman Bhattacharya, who went missing nearly 20 year ago. read more

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against the central technical committee secretary of CPI(Maoist) Sadanala Ramakrishna, member of the committee Dipak Kumar, Sambhu Charan Pal and Bapi Mudi for conspiracy, collecting explosive... read more

Barely two weeks after World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India as a polio-free nation, an 18-month-old female child was admitted to a state-run hospital in Kolkata with suspected polio on Monday. Soumen Datta & Subhendu Maiti report. read more

Kolkata’s most infamous convict, Aftab Ansari, convicted in the 2002 American Center Attack case and abduction of shoe baron Partha Pratim Roy Burman would get a new address at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail soon. Soumen Datta reports. Who is Aftab Ansari read more

A full 24 hours after Kolkata Police launched a full-scale probe into a woman\'s allegation that she was raped by three youths in a car on Park Street on Feb 5, the sleuths are now concentrating on verifying the somewhat contradictory statements given... read more

Disappointed at the tardy progress made by the interlocutors in achieving a breakthrough with Maoists, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Bannerjee has now mandated a lawyer and a retired policeman to try their luck. read more

In the government’s most forceful call for peace to the Maoists, union home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday urged the rebels to come to the dialogue table without laying down arms or leaving their ideology behind. read more

The police on Wednesday raided the residence of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) strongman Lakshman Seth to arrest him in connection with the decade-old kidnap and murder of Trinamool Congress supporter Subrata Das. Soumen Datta reports. read more

Days after the party MLA from Garbeta, Sushanta Ghosh, was booked in a murder case after five skeletons were found near his home, party strongman Lakshman Seth found himself in a similar quandary. read more

On a day when the CID announced that former CPM minister Sushanta Ghosh may have to take a polygraph test, sleuths recovered a cache of ammunition from his ancestral house in Benachapra, West Midnapore. The case read more

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers probing the January 7 Netai carnage case has sought permission to arrest and interrogate the inspector-in-charge of Lalgarh police station Ashoke Basu. read more

While the jury is out on the fate of the four Independents in Hariharpara, Sagardighi, Jalangi and Bhagabangola in Murshidabad, who had jumped into the poll fray with the blessings of local Congress strongman Adhir Chowdhury, they did not appear too... read more

Beliaghata is all set for a close contest between two candidates whose political careers have no similarity. The CPI(M), after much calculation nominated Anadi Sahu instead of Manab Mukherjee keeping in mind that the personal image of a candidate could... read more

The West Bengal state Intelligence Branch (IB) report has predicted 180-185 seats for the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance in the assembly polls - a seat count that will allow the combine to form the next government comfortably. Soumen Datta rep... read more